and the south...can you imagine the "pub" this would generate if it was going through numerous schools in the MS system...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_black_history_mock_party
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_black_history_mock_party
But I thought this only went on in Poe Mississip...
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and the south...can you imagine the "pub" this would generate if it was going through numerous schools in the MS system...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_black_history_mock_party
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_black_history_mock_party
The entire Pacific Coast as well as NY, Mass., and the rest of New England should be referred to as "RACIAL UTOPIA."
I was looking at the newspaper, and buried on about page 13 of the news section, in about two paragraphs in the bottom right corner, was a micro-story about how a black church had been burned to the ground and a handful of white males had been arrested.
I thought that if this had happened anywhere in Mississippi or the South, the national media would have absolutely killed us with it. But in Boston, it was barely local news.
I thought that if this had happened anywhere in Mississippi or the South, the national media would have absolutely killed us with it. But in Boston, it was barely local news.
"Detectives were analyzing the pillowcase for fingerprints and DNA evidence, a university statement said.</p>
<span style="BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand" id="lw_1267584484_7" class="yshortcuts"><span style="BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand" id="lw_1267584484_7" class="yshortcuts">UC</span> San Diego Chancellor Marye Anne Fox</span> vowed to punish the culprits to the fullest extent of the law. "We will not tolerate these despicable actions," she said in the statement."
I didn't know it was against the law to have a pillowcase made into a hood. Must be a California law.</p>
<span style="BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand" id="lw_1267584484_7" class="yshortcuts"><span style="BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand" id="lw_1267584484_7" class="yshortcuts">UC</span> San Diego Chancellor Marye Anne Fox</span> vowed to punish the culprits to the fullest extent of the law. "We will not tolerate these despicable actions," she said in the statement."
I didn't know it was against the law to have a pillowcase made into a hood. Must be a California law.</p>
Cincy, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago. Racism in the Midwest makes the South look mild.
However, the national media blows everything down here out of proportion.
True story. I was in Cleveland one time and their local news reported what seemed to be a small race riot. Several dozen of one race were looting a neigborhood of another race. Beatings, arson, everything horrible short of straight cold murder. In all my life of living in Alabama, Mississippi or Tennessee, I have never seen anything close to what I was watching on the local Cleveland news that night.
No one outside Cleveland knew anything about it, and it was second page news in the next morning's Plain Dealer.
A few weeks later, a single white person in Nashville threw a rock through a black business. It was on CNN, Fox, and everything national. "Racism Strikes in Nashville." Turned out he just happened to be unhappy with a business transaction and had no idea it was a black-owned business.
Nashville folks are probably familiar with a local story - I am friends with the person involved. A white suburban couple fostered a Cherokee baby and the baby ended up dying. Immediately there were reports on all the news stations and in the Tennessean about this couple quite possibly having something to do with the child's death. Of course the police investigated, and found nothing. Vanderbilt hospital originally thought there could have been some shaking, but a couple days later pinpointed that it had more to do with her biological Cherokee mother being a total meth addict. The news never corrected their mistake, and they really raked this couple over the coals. They are going to have to move.
However, the national media blows everything down here out of proportion.
True story. I was in Cleveland one time and their local news reported what seemed to be a small race riot. Several dozen of one race were looting a neigborhood of another race. Beatings, arson, everything horrible short of straight cold murder. In all my life of living in Alabama, Mississippi or Tennessee, I have never seen anything close to what I was watching on the local Cleveland news that night.
No one outside Cleveland knew anything about it, and it was second page news in the next morning's Plain Dealer.
A few weeks later, a single white person in Nashville threw a rock through a black business. It was on CNN, Fox, and everything national. "Racism Strikes in Nashville." Turned out he just happened to be unhappy with a business transaction and had no idea it was a black-owned business.
Nashville folks are probably familiar with a local story - I am friends with the person involved. A white suburban couple fostered a Cherokee baby and the baby ended up dying. Immediately there were reports on all the news stations and in the Tennessean about this couple quite possibly having something to do with the child's death. Of course the police investigated, and found nothing. Vanderbilt hospital originally thought there could have been some shaking, but a couple days later pinpointed that it had more to do with her biological Cherokee mother being a total meth addict. The news never corrected their mistake, and they really raked this couple over the coals. They are going to have to move.
People in the NKY Cincy "suburbs" like to think of themselves as Southern, but since they don't possess the requisite accents, cuisine, temperaments, casual Civil War knowledge, complete inability to function in snow, and acknowledgment of college football superiority that are all parts of actually being "Southern," they think that slapping the stars and bars up and being racist somehow makes them Southern.
I went to Chicago for the first time two summers ago. The first day I was there, my brother-in-law and I were walking around downtown (north side), and we passed this dude who was staggering around, obviously drunk or high, screaming "I don't give a 17! Bout none of y'all white motha17ers. Cause I'm black!" There were these middle-aged well-to-do businessmen and women just strolling right past him. It was fascinatingly awkward. I thought "That was so retro... what the hell is this, 1965?"
and this surprises me none. I have never been in a more segregated city in my life... Black people live in one spot, gays in one spot, regular white folk in one area, mexicans in another. Its amazing... Its also an ignorant city in terms of worldly views. You'd be amazed how many times I would get asked the most stereotypical Mississippi question ( where is that again? Are you a racist?) just the dumbest **** you could imagine...
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From the Watts riots, to Rodney King/ensuing riots, to the O.J. trial, the citizens of L.A. are poster children for neo-racism.</p>
Most blatant racism I've seen was while having lunch with some fellow workshop attendees: a black woman from Atlanta, a Puerto Rican guy, and a white woman from South Dakota. Puerto Rican guy was trying to ask something of South Dakota Honkiette but in his broken English, it accidentally came out like an order instead of a request. South Dakota Honkiette bristled and damn near yelled, "No I'm not gonna do that, I'm not your maid! Do I look like I'm black or something?!?"
I am forever shamed that I was stunned into silence while the woman from Atlanta asked Honkiette to repeat herself (and Honkiette was dumb enough to do just that) and then gracefully excused herself from the room.
Honkiette refused to apologize for what she'd said, even after we called her out on it later.
I am forever shamed that I was stunned into silence while the woman from Atlanta asked Honkiette to repeat herself (and Honkiette was dumb enough to do just that) and then gracefully excused herself from the room.
Honkiette refused to apologize for what she'd said, even after we called her out on it later.
I was at a football game and met someone from Pennsylvania. Somehow, the conversation led to a story in which he told me that when he was in high school, an all-white high school, they had a black guy transfer in. He said that all they knew about black people was that they were thugs, "cause we had watched BET and knew how black people acted." At this point, I facepalm. Then he went on to tell me that they didn't want him on the football team, so the team proceeded to beat him senseless in the locker room one day, to further let him know he wasn't wanted.
I was in shock. One, that this stuff still happens(i.e. large group beatings b/c of race). Two, that this happened in Pennsylvania. Three, that this fool was actually telling me this.
The south gets a bad wrap for racism, but it probably actually has the best race relations.
I was in shock. One, that this stuff still happens(i.e. large group beatings b/c of race). Two, that this happened in Pennsylvania. Three, that this fool was actually telling me this.
The south gets a bad wrap for racism, but it probably actually has the best race relations.
than anywhere in the south. It's well documented as to why, and we don't need to get into that, but those effers can be brutal.
the KKK and racism in my then home Mississippi. They wanted to know details I couldn't furnish for them. The rest of the trip I was treated to them talking about all the GD ___'s, Puerto Ricans and Mexicans and how they kept them all in their place. I wanted to throw up by the time I was leaving.
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People like her are usually proud of their beliefs and love the opportunity to let you know them.
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Oddly enough, she then went on a rant about Pakistanies and how she hated them. She looked dumbfounded when I stated I had never been to a KKK rally.</p>